Dual boot Vista & XP cant read xp drive

Hi

I did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate on a new Sata drive. My old drive is
now a slave drive on the other controller. The old drive has a working copy
of XP Home on it. It was my original drive for this system.

The problem is Vista cant read any files from the old drive. Vista found the
drive and partitions on that drive and did assign drive letters.

What do I need to do to make Vista recognize Windows XP and be able to boot
to either system?

I wasn't sure if it was a Vista or XP problem so I posted to both groups. My
apologizes if that was inappropriate.

Thanks in advance
Rick

Rick wrote:
> Hi
>
> I did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate on a new Sata drive. My old drive is
> now a slave drive on the other controller. The old drive has a working copy
> of XP Home on it. It was my original drive for this system.
>
> The problem is Vista cant read any files from the old drive. Vista found the
> drive and partitions on that drive and did assign drive letters.
>
> What do I need to do to make Vista recognize Windows XP and be able to boot
> to either system?
>
> I wasn't sure if it was a Vista or XP problem so I posted to both groups. My
> apologizes if that was inappropriate.

What does "can't read any files" mean? Can't actually see any data files
(drive appears empty) or gives you an error message such as "access
denied"? If an error message, please quote it exactly.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

can you take ownership of the files on the XP drive?

did you install a dual-boot or just a Vista on the side?

So BIOS and Vista sees the XP drive? what does disk managr says the XP disk
has as status?
Can you run a chkdsk on the drive?

"Rick" wrote:

> Hi
>
> I did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate on a new Sata drive. My old drive is
> now a slave drive on the other controller. The old drive has a working copy
> of XP Home on it. It was my original drive for this system.
>
> The problem is Vista cant read any files from the old drive. Vista found the
> drive and partitions on that drive and did assign drive letters.
>
> What do I need to do to make Vista recognize Windows XP and be able to boot
> to either system?
>
> I wasn't sure if it was a Vista or XP problem so I posted to both groups. My
> apologizes if that was inappropriate.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Rick
>
>
>

Rick

I would use BootIt Next Generation to create a dual boot system. You
need to create a situation where neither operating system can see the
other. You put shared data files in a third partition which both can
see. BootIt NG provides a boot manager outside both systems enabling you
to choose which operating system you wish to start. You can also resize
partitions to suit.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/examples.html

--



Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Rick wrote:
> Hi
>
> I did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate on a new Sata drive. My old
> drive is now a slave drive on the other controller. The old drive has
> a working copy of XP Home on it. It was my original drive for this
> system.
> The problem is Vista cant read any files from the old drive. Vista
> found the drive and partitions on that drive and did assign drive
> letters.
> What do I need to do to make Vista recognize Windows XP and be able
> to boot to either system?
>
> I wasn't sure if it was a Vista or XP problem so I posted to both
> groups. My apologizes if that was inappropriate.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Rick

"Rick" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Hi
>
> I did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate on a new Sata drive. My old drive
> is now a slave drive on the other controller. The old drive has a working
> copy of XP Home on it. It was my original drive for this system.
>
> The problem is Vista cant read any files from the old drive. Vista found
> the drive and partitions on that drive and did assign drive letters.
>
> What do I need to do to make Vista recognize Windows XP and be able to
> boot to either system?
>
> I wasn't sure if it was a Vista or XP problem so I posted to both groups.
> My apologizes if that was inappropriate.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Rick

The easiest way to do this is with Vista Boot Pro or EasyBCD. Use
GROUPS.google.com to search
microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup for them -- you will find
lots of good info & links.

-Paul Randall

Hi again

Ok to clarify what's happening is

XP and the partioned drive (ide)was my original drive on this system. I
added a second drive( sata), made it my primary c drive and loaded Vista on
it. I moved the old drive and it now appears as a slave with the DVD burner
as primary in the ide cable.

Vista finds the drive and identifies it as a ntfs with mbr drive. It shows
the two partitions D and E. That is correct. I have full permissions control
of the drive.

It allows me to check the properties on the E drive partition ( which I
know is a empty partition.

However on the d drive partition ( were XP is installed) it correctly shows
the disk usage, but will not let me check the properties of that partition.
If I attempt to explore it Vista reports the drive is blank.

I don't care as much if Vista sees the files on the second drive. I just
want to be able to boot to one system or the other. My plan was as suggested
is to made the E drive a share drive for both systems.

Thanks for your help and I hope this clarifies things some what.

"Rick" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Hi
>
> I did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate on a new Sata drive. My old drive
> is now a slave drive on the other controller. The old drive has a working
> copy of XP Home on it. It was my original drive for this system.
>
> The problem is Vista cant read any files from the old drive. Vista found
> the drive and partitions on that drive and did assign drive letters.
>
> What do I need to do to make Vista recognize Windows XP and be able to
> boot to either system?
>
> I wasn't sure if it was a Vista or XP problem so I posted to both groups.
> My apologizes if that was inappropriate.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Rick
>

Use Paul's suggestion and add a legacy entry to your Vista boot. If you
still have problems, post back useful information. In Vista, in Disk
Management, show the information displayed for each disk and partition i.e.
disk 0 partition 1 C system,boot,active,primary etc.


"Rick" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi again
>
> Ok to clarify what's happening is
>
> XP and the partioned drive (ide)was my original drive on this system. I
> added a second drive( sata), made it my primary c drive and loaded Vista
> on it. I moved the old drive and it now appears as a slave with the DVD
> burner as primary in the ide cable.
>
> Vista finds the drive and identifies it as a ntfs with mbr drive. It shows
> the two partitions D and E. That is correct. I have full permissions
> control of the drive.
>
> It allows me to check the properties on the E drive partition ( which I
> know is a empty partition.
>
> However on the d drive partition ( were XP is installed) it correctly
> shows the disk usage, but will not let me check the properties of that
> partition. If I attempt to explore it Vista reports the drive is blank.
>
> I don't care as much if Vista sees the files on the second drive. I just
> want to be able to boot to one system or the other. My plan was as
> suggested is to made the E drive a share drive for both systems.
>
> Thanks for your help and I hope this clarifies things some what.
>
> "Rick" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> Hi
>>
>> I did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate on a new Sata drive. My old drive
>> is now a slave drive on the other controller. The old drive has a working
>> copy of XP Home on it. It was my original drive for this system.
>>
>> The problem is Vista cant read any files from the old drive. Vista found
>> the drive and partitions on that drive and did assign drive letters.
>>
>> What do I need to do to make Vista recognize Windows XP and be able to
>> boot to either system?
>>
>> I wasn't sure if it was a Vista or XP problem so I posted to both groups.
>> My apologizes if that was inappropriate.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Rick
>>
>
>

Hi, Rick
In general, it is not a good idea to have a CD/DVD drive be a master and
hard drive be a slave on an IDE cable. I tried that once and my system
slowed to a crawl. Making the hard drive the master fixed it.

Before I talk about your problem, we need to define some terms. You have
talked about having a SATA drive and an IDE drive. These are physical
drives, which can be partitioned. Each partition that is not hidden will be
assigned a "drive letter", like C: or D: during bootup. It is important to
note that the drive letter refers to a partition on a physical drive, not to
the physical drive itself. You might think that a drive with only one
partition has not been partitioned; that would be wrong. It must be
partitioned, which sets up the partition table, before the drive is
formatted -- otherwise the format program wouldn't know what part of the
physical drive to format.

You have stated that the IDE drive has two partitions. When you were using
it, they probably were assigned the drive letters C: and D: during the
bootup process. You probably had WXP installed on C: drive. You may have
installed some programs on drive D: WXP and many programs store the paths
of programs and .DLLs they need in the registry, including the drive letter.
On bootup, your SATA drive is now being assigned the letter C:. WXP is
going to have major problems trying to find its stuff on C:.

Hopefully your IDE drive was not messed up by the Vista installation. I
would remove the SATA drive and verify whether your WXP system is still
usable. Report back here, and maybe we can guide you to a dual boot setup
you can live with.

-Paul Randall

"Rick" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi again
>
> Ok to clarify what's happening is
>
> XP and the partioned drive (ide)was my original drive on this system. I
> added a second drive( sata), made it my primary c drive and loaded Vista
> on it. I moved the old drive and it now appears as a slave with the DVD
> burner as primary in the ide cable.
>
> Vista finds the drive and identifies it as a ntfs with mbr drive. It shows
> the two partitions D and E. That is correct. I have full permissions
> control of the drive.
>
> It allows me to check the properties on the E drive partition ( which I
> know is a empty partition.
>
> However on the d drive partition ( were XP is installed) it correctly
> shows the disk usage, but will not let me check the properties of that
> partition. If I attempt to explore it Vista reports the drive is blank.
>
> I don't care as much if Vista sees the files on the second drive. I just
> want to be able to boot to one system or the other. My plan was as
> suggested is to made the E drive a share drive for both systems.
>
> Thanks for your help and I hope this clarifies things some what.
>
> "Rick" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> Hi
>>
>> I did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate on a new Sata drive. My old drive
>> is now a slave drive on the other controller. The old drive has a working
>> copy of XP Home on it. It was my original drive for this system.
>>
>> The problem is Vista cant read any files from the old drive. Vista found
>> the drive and partitions on that drive and did assign drive letters.
>>
>> What do I need to do to make Vista recognize Windows XP and be able to
>> boot to either system?
>>
>> I wasn't sure if it was a Vista or XP problem so I posted to both groups.
>> My apologizes if that was inappropriate.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Rick
>>
>
>

HI

I just formatted and reloaded both systems on their respective disks. XP can
read both hard drive . XP reports the C drive ( IDE) as:
C drive ( XP)
Location 0
Disk 0 mbr

D Drive ( Sata) ( Vista)
Location 0
Disk 1 mbr

However XP is the only one I can boot at this time. How do I or what program
do I need to make this system dual boot?
Thanks in advance
Rick

"Rick" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Hi
>
> I did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate on a new Sata drive. My old drive
> is now a slave drive on the other controller. The old drive has a working
> copy of XP Home on it. It was my original drive for this system.
>
> The problem is Vista cant read any files from the old drive. Vista found
> the drive and partitions on that drive and did assign drive letters.
>
> What do I need to do to make Vista recognize Windows XP and be able to
> boot to either system?
>
> I wasn't sure if it was a Vista or XP problem so I posted to both groups.
> My apologizes if that was inappropriate.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Rick
>

Which is your system drive.

"Rick" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> HI
>
> I just formatted and reloaded both systems on their respective disks. XP
> can read both hard drive . XP reports the C drive ( IDE) as:
> C drive ( XP)
> Location 0
> Disk 0 mbr
>
> D Drive ( Sata) ( Vista)
> Location 0
> Disk 1 mbr
>
> However XP is the only one I can boot at this time. How do I or what
> program do I need to make this system dual boot?
> Thanks in advance
> Rick
>
> "Rick" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> Hi
>>
>> I did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate on a new Sata drive. My old drive
>> is now a slave drive on the other controller. The old drive has a working
>> copy of XP Home on it. It was my original drive for this system.
>>
>> The problem is Vista cant read any files from the old drive. Vista found
>> the drive and partitions on that drive and did assign drive letters.
>>
>> What do I need to do to make Vista recognize Windows XP and be able to
>> boot to either system?
>>
>> I wasn't sure if it was a Vista or XP problem so I posted to both groups.
>> My apologizes if that was inappropriate.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Rick
>>
>
>